Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art

Beyond the Clock

Kate Bretkelly-Chalmers

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Intellect Books
15 February 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Philosophy

Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art presents a major study of time as a key aesthetic dimension of recent art practices. This book explores different aspects of time across a broad range of artistic media and draws on recent movements in philosophy, science, and technology to show how artists generate temporal experiences that resist the standardized time of modernity: Olafur Eliasson’s melting icebergs produce fragile temporal ecologies; Marina Abramović’s performances test the durations of the human body; Christian Marclay’s The Clock conflates past and present chronologies.

This book examines alternative frameworks of time, duration, and change in prominent philosophical, scientific, and technological traditions, including physics, psychology, phenomenology, neuroscience, media theory, and selected environmental sciences. It suggests that art makes a crucial contribution to these discourses not by “visualizing” time, but by entangling viewers in different sensory, material, and imaginary temporalities.

By: Kate Bretkelly-Chalmers
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781783209194
ISBN 10: 1783209194
Pages: 175
Publication Date: 15 February 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Time Chapter 1: Marking Time in Conceptual Art Chapter 2: Around the Clock: 24/7 Times Chapter 3: Dust and Duration: Timing Women’s Work Part II: Duration Chapter 4: Temporal Fever: Archive and Database Chapter 5: Duration and Endurance: Minimalism and Performance Chapter 6: Microtemporality: Time Perception in Film and Video Chapter 7: Accumulative Art and the Time of Stuff Part III: (Interregnum): Relativity Chapter 8: Special Relativity: Time and the Art of Instability Chapter 9: Cultural Relativity and the Time of the Other Part IV: Change Chapter 10: Beyond Our Time: Entropy and Icebergs Chapter 11: Speculative Time and Contemporary Art Stone in Hand: A Brief Conclusion Bibliography Index

Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers is a contemporary art historian and curator based in Auckland.